Detailed study of female monasticism in the later middle ages, with particular emphasis on the nuns' importance to the local community.

The medieval era has been described as 'the Age of Chivalry' and 'the Age of Faith' but also as 'the Dark Ages'. Medieval women have often been viewed as subjec

The importance of the medieval abbot needs no particular emphasis. The monastic superiors of late medieval England ruled over thousands of monks and canons, who

In this book, Mark Bailey provides a comprehensive survey of the economy and society of late medieval Suffolk.

Superior Women examines the claims of abbesses of the abbey of Sainte-Croix in medieval Poitiers to authority from the abbey's foundation to its 1520 reform. Th